Brainstorming Japanese Best Practices

Scenario

Next Year 2010 April, you are managing a large global project.  Most of the Project Team will be Japanese.  The Head Office is in Tokyo.  The Tokyo Office will conduct the majority of the planning/controlling/monitoring.  The customers will be global. There will be a manufacturing team in China. There will be an Information Technology Team in India. The Marketing Team will be from the USA.  The Project Managers from each team will come to Tokyo for training in Japanese Project Management Methods.  All the Project Managers are Project Management Professionals, with technical experience in their domains.

Before the planning begins, you are the activity owner for Team building activities.  Since most of the project will be planned/managed/controlled from Japan, the methods will be Japanese.  The goal of the team building activity is to teach the offshore Project Managers about Japanese Business Culture and Project Management methods.

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PMBOK Cafe Presentations "Japanese Best Practices"

How to succeed in Global Project by the Japanese way?

Cultural Environment of Japanese Project Management

Communication Issues in Japanese Project Management

Team Building and Managing Risk in Japanese Project Management

Harmony- "How to succeed in Global Projects by Japanese Way."

Team Members; Kentaro Sakamoto, Shinichi Osaka, Tatsuo Yanagidaira

PMBOK Cafe Japanese Project Management Best Practices from Robert Higgins on Vimeo.

How to succeed in Global Projects by Japanese Way

Introduction

Identify the characteristic of Japanese Way and apply for Project Management.

We have to lead global projects with international project members in Japanese way

Non-Japanese members are difficult to identify Japanese Customs and business styles

Every Group member understand and respects Japanese way

Our core competence is harmony

Today we are going to talk about execution and the details 

First the characteristics of Japanese Project Management execution

The decision making is done by Project Team Members as a group through discussion and agreement

Japanese approach for decision making is a bottom up approach

Three detailed aspects of Japanese problem solving

First Cost cutting is not done by laying off people which might disturb the Harmony of staff members.

Second catching up on the schedule is done by the team member by overtime work, not by hiring new members

Third the higher quality is made by the higher motivation of the workers

Conclusion

Non-Japanese members are difficult to identify Japanese Customs and business styles

Our core competence is harmony

Japanese Best Practices

Japan has a long history of Culture.  Projects have been completed in Japan for thousands of years.  Today, Japanese Companies are leading the world in terms of bringing new products to market.  Many of the concepts of Project Management have been imported from Japanese Business.  For Example Kaizen, Ishikawa Diagrams, Affinity Diagramming, Scrum, Lean and Kanban.  The Third PMBOKCafe is going to explore the unique nature of performing Project Management in Japan.

Participants will be able to share their knowledge, and experiences.  We will use the PMBOK as a base to compare what is different in Japan.  For Example; Project Charter, Project Plan, Earned Value Management, Risk Management etc.?  What kind of Cultural Differences in Japan impact Project Management?

PMBOK Cafe is an advanced workshop for  Project Management Professionals with English Communication Skills. Workshop Participants will earn PDU or Professional Development Units from the Project Management Institute Japan  for contributing to the knowledge of Project Management Best practices. A limited number of spaces are available for non PMP certified participants who have strong practical experience in Global Project Management.

Japanese Best Practices

Japan has a long history of Culture.  Projects have been completed in Japan for thousands of years.  Today, Japanese Companies are leading the world in terms of bringing new products to market.  Many of the concepts of Project Management have been imported from Japanese Business.  For Example Kaizen, Ishikawa Diagrams, Affinity Diagramming, Scrum, Lean and Kanban.  The Third PMBOKCafe is going to explore the unique nature of performing Project Management in Japan.

Participants will be able to share their knowledge, and experiences.  We will use the PMBOK as a base to compare what is different in Japan.  For Example; Project Charter, Project Plan, Earned Value Management, Risk Management etc.?  What kind of Cultural Differences in Japan impact Project Management?

PMBOK Cafe is an advanced workshop for  Project Management Professionals with English Communication Skills. Workshop Participants will earn PDU or Professional Development Units from the Project Management Institute Japan  for contributing to the knowledge of Project Management Best practices. A limited number of spaces are available for non PMP certified participants who have strong practical experience in Global Project Management.

Japanese Best Practices

Japan has a long history of Culture.  Projects have been completed in Japan for thousands of years.  Today, Japanese Companies are leading the world in terms of bringing new products to market.  Many of the concepts of Project Management have been imported from Japanese Business.  For Example Kaizen, Ishikawa Diagrams, Affinity Diagramming, Scrum, Lean and Kanban.  The Third PMBOKCafe is going to explore the unique nature of performing Project Management in Japan.

Participants will be able to share their knowledge, and experiences.  We will use the PMBOK as a base to compare what is different in Japan.  For Example; Project Charter, Project Plan, Earned Value Management, Risk Management etc.?  What kind of Cultural Differences in Japan impact Project Management?

PMBOK Cafe is an advanced workshop for  Project Management Professionals with English Communication Skills. Workshop Participants will earn PDU or Professional Development Units from the Project Management Institute Japan  for contributing to the knowledge of Project Management Best practices. A limited number of spaces are available for non PMP certified participants who have strong practical experience in Global Project Management.